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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by JPKab on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:22PM (#22552980)
Antibiotics cause super viruses. By killing bacteria? Umm, no.

This virus came from a wildlife market filled with multiple species stacked on top of each other. Let's not act like this is equivalent in danger to chicken/beef production.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by geddy on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:30AM (#22557226)
Um, yes. If you keep taking the same antibiotics (or feeding them in huge quantities to livestock) then yes, new strains of viruses that are antibiotic resistant will emerge. That's how viruses work and evolve.

Otherwise we'd have discovered a flu vaccine and then no one would have ever gotten the flu again. Yet here we are. The virus evolves and changes over time.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by JPKab on Sunday March 15, 2020 @11:10PM (#22589441)
The fact that you don't know the difference between viruses and bacteria is apalling. Stop reading about coding, because you are ignorant.
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